There were a few items I already had ready because I assumed we would need them (sugar, dried apples, flour). I also haven’t had the issues that others are having were they get more golden than purple. I have been getting 2 Golden and 2 purple the majority of the time I collect. I also bought some pur?e and dried fruit in the newspaper so that helped so those items never held me up. For the last goal I had a boost for the kitchen with a few hours few on it and was able to use that to reduce the time for the cakes.